Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heart". To many Harvard men the English Department has been reduced to a group of definitive and meticulous scholars for the training of Ph.D.s who have failed, for the most part, to reach the undergraduate and who, in the maxe of sheer quantitative labor, have lost hold of the soul of their subject and of their audiences whose duty it is, at least, to interest...
...such good sportsmen that, when what happened did happen they were really wrung with sympathy for bumptious Mr. Brand, after whose name in Who's Who appears the proud legend, "member of the Butter and Milk Commission under Herbert Hoover during the World War," but upon whose soul now rests the necessity of supporting the curious "boom" of his fellow Ohioan, Senator Willis. Never did a big butter-&-milk man undertake a braver job than attacking a once honored chief for the sake of a boss to whom he was now obligated. And never did a big butter-&-milk...
...Soul, by Muriel Haskell, is an entirely ludicrous pattern, attempting to present, in its melee of prongs and beams and curlycues, an allegory as trite, as uninteresting and as unconvincing as the metaphors in a schoolboy's sonnet...
...question of intervention. It was a distinguishing feature that the initiative was given to the Latin nations, steamroller methods were in no way applied, and criticism was indeed invited. There is nothing like having the freedom and the opportunity to express your feelings. Frank discussion is good for the soul, national or individual. The Conference certainly gave these 20 nations, large or small, an opportunity for this. There was disagreement, it is true, but it was much better that it be above board than kept repressed. And our delegation came away with the respect, and I believe the admiration...
...spark that made the Sophoclean drama the greatest of human tragedies. In spite of himself, Stravinsky's (Edipus music is dramatic, tragedy-telling, alarming, dreadsome-in short, as exciting as any catastrophe, as comprehensible as any of the passions by which Fate works its will upon the simple soul...